Champions named in ParaLong

10:35 PM,
Oct. 31, 2013

Written by

Mike Donahue
Desert Valley Times

The ParaLong Drive championship exhibition Tuesday was a remarkable display of how people "can face and not only overcome extreme adversity in life but actually thrive while doing it," said Bryan Dangerfield, the director of Mesquite Department of Athletics and Leisure Services.

The ParaLong Drive event was man-to-man competition among the 14 amputee golfers were six competing with only one arm and eight who had lost one leg or both.

As a matter of fact, Dangerfield said, the overall champion, Jared Brentz, was a double leg amputee. He the competition with a drive of 358 yards, farther than ...